Roy Hattersley, former Labour deputy leader, dies aged 93
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<p>Roy Hattersley, who served as deputy leader of the Labour Party under Neil Kinnock, has died at the age of 93.</p>
<p>The Sheffield-born politician entered parliament in 1964 as the MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook, a post he held for more than three decades.</p>
<p>He was the party&#8217;s deputy leader in opposition for nine years following after its historic defeat to Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s Conservatives in 1983.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said Lord Hattersley &#8220;was a giant of the Labour movement&#8221;<b>.</b></p>
<p>&#8220;Through decades of service, including as deputy leader and a minister, he never lost his belief in a more equal Britain.</p>
<p>&#8220;My thoughts are with his wife Maggie and his family.&#8221;</p>
<p>Deputy Labour leader Lucy Powell said Lord Hattersley had &#8220;shaped the Labour Party and British politics&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;He was a giant of our movement and of that generation of politicians.&#8221;</p>
<p>She said he had been &#8220;kind, thoughtful and full of sound advice&#8221;.</p>
<p>New Labour strategist Alistair Campbell described him as &#8220;Labour through and through&#8221; and &#8220;a loyal and hard working deputy to Neil at a vital time in Labour history&#8221;.</p>
<p>He was made a life peer as Baron Hattersley of Sparkbrook after leaving the Commons in 1997.</p>

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